Fulfilling the Great Commission “Through you all peoples will be blessed” ( Gen. 12:3 ) Howard Culbertson Ministry, Church and Society Southern Nazarene.

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Fulfilling the Great Commission “Through you all peoples will be blessed” ( Gen. 12:3 ) Howard Culbertson Ministry, Church and Society Southern Nazarene University

Fulfilling the Great Commission 5 Epochs of Redemptive History Concept developed by Ralph Winter

Fulfilling the Great Commission Winning the Romans AD 0-400

Fulfilling the Great Commission Emperor Constantine’s Vision

Fulfilling the Great Commission Winning the Barbarians AD

Fulfilling the Great Commission Winning the Barbarians AD Boniface after chopping down the sacred oak of the thunder god

Fulfilling the Great Commission Winning the Vikings AD

Fulfilling the Great Commission Winning the Vikings AD  Vikings delighted in –killing people in the churches –burning churches –selling monks into slavery.  Though England and the Continent were devastated by the Vikings, it was not a victory for paganism

Fulfilling the Great Commission Winning the Saracens? AD

Fulfilling the Great Commission Winning the Saracens? AD The stain of the Crusades St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt Raymond Lull’s martyrdom in North Africa versus

Fulfilling the Great Commission To the Ends of the Earth AD

Fulfilling the Great Commission To the Ends of the Earth AD

Fulfilling the Great Commission : The Great Century “Imperfect as they were, nineteenth- century missionaries turned what some thought to be a declining Caucasian religion into the largest and most dynamic religious faith in the world” -- Ruth Tucker

Fulfilling the Great Commission William Carey  Father of Modern Missions  To India in 1797 The rebuke to Carey: “When God chooses to win the heathen, He will do it without your help or ours.”

Fulfilling the Great Commission Hudson Taylor  Middle 1800’s A Chinese convert: “What! For hundreds of years you have had these glad tidings and only now have come to preach it to us? My father sought after the truth and died without finding it. Why did you not come sooner?”

Fulfilling the Great Commission Unreached Peoples William “Uncle Cam” Townsend 1930’s Unreached Linguistic Groups A Guatemalan Indian’s question: “How come God doesn’t speak my language?”

Fulfilling the Great Commission Unreached Peoples Donald McGavran Unreached Ethnic Groups “God wants His lost children found!”

Fulfilling the Great Commission “Through you all peoples will be blessed” ( Gen. 12:3 )